Meaning of flouncy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Moving with a flounce (“a bouncy, exaggerated manner; an act of departing in a dramatic, haughty way that draws attention to oneself”).
2. Calling attention; flashy, showy; also, elaborate; fancy.
   figuratively
3. Of a garment, etc.: having a flounce (“strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge”) or flounces; gathered and pleated.

Examples

“[S]he came, saw, and conquered the worthy man whose name she adorns, and whose home she keeps in a manner which is the despair of all the easygoing, hoopy, flouncy, little women, who have made sundry tomtits happy by allowing them to pay their dry-goods bills.”

“In other matters, besides those connected with the lamentable young man, the flouncy nature of this misguided young person hourly manifests itself. She is of that kind that runs over street crossings and smiles upon the wide world generally when she reaches the other side.”

“Mrs. Dozer is also assiduous, but flouncy; and brings with her sudden draughts, and goes away again leaving doors open, which I get up and close, using language as I do so.”

“So it was that poor, fat Mrs. Berman sat on her sofa this Wednesday night with a large wild hat on, congested as to the face, flouncy and flighty as to the feet, and trying to pretend that she was smoking a Russian cigarette.”

“Take, as a contrast, a near neighbor on the left, pretty Mrs. Wimbledon, widow of the late Mr. Wimbledon, a young and pretty widow; with a garden that looks so intelligent; with flower-beds so dashing and flouncy; with premium strawberries; with altogether "so engaging a place," as people say, that many good folks would like to share it with the lovely Mrs. Wimbledon.”

“And, later, when I married Francisco and replaced the McBride like a pair of baggy old knickers with his much frillier, flouncier surname, I couldn't help but marvel at my lucky escape.”

“FLAT CAP […] A conservative but quietly manly choice, this round cap with a still, barely visible brim blends with almost any look. Its more outlandish, flouncier cousin is the newsboy.”

“Tulipa 'Red Impression' […] [T]his tulip really does make a lasting impression. With its huge, glossy red flower it looks like a bigger, bolder, and flouncier version of 'Madame Lefeber' or Tulipa fosteriana and surely that species has had a major influence in the breeding of this tulip.”

“This [route] will take you back to the Loire and eventually lead you through the forest to the final stop at Chambord, via the D84, the biggest, flounciest, frippery-filled, multi-turreted Disney on steroids castle of them all.”

“[N]ovv praye, vvhat may you call that flouncy garment? for I ſuppoſe it has ſome fine fangled neam belonging to it.”

“Sometimes she thought of adopting a more showy, flouncy style of dress—like the Miss Smiths; but when it came to the point, somehow Hannah always felt she could not go out so. People would laugh at her, and say she was copying the Smiths, and "anything rather than that," thought Hannah Brown.”

“They sat about in black and shiny and flouncey clothing adorned with gimp and beads, eating great quantities of cake, drinking much tea in a stately manner and reverberating remarks.”

“He noticed that Elaine appeared charming in her neat little, flouncy printer's apron.”

“The performers are dressed by Gary Lisz in saccharine, fussy balletic glosses on eighteenth-century costume—much gartering and lacing, with absurd skintight pantaloons beneath the flouncy short tutus.”

“Mavis Longbottom is there, together with Angel Robinson in her flounciest printed cotton, but not inside the cathedral.”

“I think a frillier, flouncier dress might be in order tomorrow, though.”

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